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Impeachment of President Salome Zurabishvili and Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili - Selected Articles In 20 Stories

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Impeachment of President Salome Zurabishvili and Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili   _____________________________ Georgian PM discusses ties, country’s EU aspirations with new Dutch Ambassador posted at 14:49:38 UTC   via   Agenda.ge news.feed As The EU Pushes Georgia To End Political Polarization, The Government Impeaches The President posted at 16:02:09 UTC   via   rferl.org TBILISI -- When the European Union cracked open its door to Georgia last year, it made its invitation to formal candidate status conditional on the country reducing the polarization that has long vexed its domestic politics. But before Brussels makes its critical decision on Georgia's candidacy in October, the country is embroiled in yet another bitter internal power struggle. President Salome Zurabishvili is on a tour of Europe that so far has taken her to Berlin, Brussels, and Paris to promote Georgia's EU candidacy. But the Georgian Constitution requires the president -- whose position is largely sy